Blues from the Delta
Contributors: Billy Taylor (Designer)
Edition: Rev Ed edition
Publisher: Da Capo
Published: October 1, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780306803277
Subjects: Blues; History & Criticism - General; Musical Instruments - General; Music / History & Criticism; Music-Musical Instruments - General; Southern States; Music/Songbooks; African American musicians; Blues (Music); Blues musicians; History and criticism; Mississippi; Music
First sentence: Highway 61 stretches across two hundred miles of rich black land known as the Mississippi Delta where mile-long rows of cotton and soybeans spread out from its pavement and surround occasional towns such as Lula, Alligator, Panther Burn, Nitta Yuma, Anguilla, Arcola, and Onward.